Side by side

Nashville vs Seattle

Seattle pays more: a median of $101,500 against $75,000. There is 3.4× more demand for Nashville. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 49.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNashvilleSeattleGap
Open postings69,65220,711+48,941
Posted this week2,652530
Median salary$75,000$101,500$-26.5k
25th percentile$59.5k$80k
75th percentile$93k$126k
Salary disclosed7.3%5.4%
Remote share6.5%10.3%-3.8pp
Median age of posting43d49d
Open over 60 days43.0%37.4%
Visa sponsorship23.2%24.7%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nashville

$34k$130k

Seattle

$46k$176k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+

Seattle

just posted49d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Nashville — technologies

Salesforce
72.0%
Node.js
65.8%
TypeScript
59.6%
Tableau
53.4%
SQL
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
Snowflake
34.8%

Seattle — technologies

JavaScript
72.0%
AWS
65.8%
Azure
59.6%
Snowflake
53.4%
React
47.2%
Salesforce
41.0%
Python
34.8%

Nashville — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing
9.4%
Meridian Software
8.7%
Fairmount Legal
8.0%
Aperture Labs
7.2%
Tidewater Insurance
6.5%
Brightline Retail
5.8%
Northwind Systems
5.1%

Seattle — employers

Cobalt Financial
9.4%
Halcyon Energy
8.7%
Vantage Logistics
8.0%
Brightline Retail
7.2%
Kestrel Health
6.5%
Aperture Labs
5.8%
Meridian Software
5.1%

Track this slice

A weekly note when openings, pay or freshness move for Nashville vs Seattle.

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.